Author Biography

Matt Neely (CISSP and CTGA) is the Director of Research, Innovation and Strategic Initiatives at SecureState, a security management consulting firm. At SecureState Matt leads the Research and Innovation team which focuses on imagining, researching and developing new offensive and defensive capabilities. His research interests include the convergence of physical and logical security, lock and lock picking, cryptography and all things wireless.

Mr. Neely is actively involved in public speaking and has spoken as a subject matter expert over seventy-five times at various local, national and international conventions and user group meetings including BlackHat EU, DefCon, ShmooCon, Thotcon and Notacon. Mr. Neely also guest lectures at local colleges on topics on security and risk management. He is a founding member of the Cleveland Chapter of TOOOL and is a host on the Security Justice podcast.

Alex Hamerstone is the Compliance Officer for TOA Technologies, an international workforce management software company. He is an RABQSA certified ISO27001 Auditor and is active in the security community. When he isn’t working or writing, he enjoys tinkering with electronics and spending time with his family.

Chris Sanyk is an IT professional with over twelve years of experience in everything from desktop publishing and web design, PC and server hardware, to user support, system administration, and software development. In his spare time, he blogs and develops video games at his website, csanyk.com.